| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 4 |
One who has shed your blood, or whose blood you have shed, becomes your sword brother, unless you formally repudiate the blood on your weapons. |
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| 2 | 268 |
Most keenly perhaps, I missed that he had not spoken to me of himself, for I wanted to know him, that kindly, remote stranger whose bones were in my body, whose blood flowed in mine—my father. |
10 |
| 3 | 157 |
I twisted, and the blade cut my tunic cleanly, creasing the skin with a line of blood as sharp as a razor. |
10 |
| 3 | 188 |
I withdrew it bright with his blood. |
10 |
| 3 | 247 |
It is a matter of blood and spirit, of beast and man, of a relation between two beings which must be immediate, intuitive, spontaneous. |
10 |
| 4 | 78 |
In your veins must flow the blood of your father, once Ubar, War Chieftain, now Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, this City of Cylinders". |
10 |
| 6 | 219 |
After a few minutes, his beak and talons wet with blood and feathers, your tarn took flight. |
10 |
| 9 | 78 |
I suddenly sensed the rush of blood in her and in myself. |
10 |
| 9 | 164 |
The warrior, who held his shoulder, blood streaming down from his hand, smiled bitterly. |
10 |
| 13 | 68 |
Accordingly, it is regarded as heresy to shed their blood. |
10 |
| 13 | 73 |
Oddly enough, casuistically, stoning the Afflicted is not regarded as a violation of the Priest-Kings' supposed injunction against shedding their blood. |
10 |
| 14 | 96 |
I choked, and shook my head to clear the blood from my eyes, and in that instant was seized by three or four of the Ubar's tarnsmen. |
10 |
| 15 | 173 |
"You are willing," I asked, "to turn the city over to Pa-Kur—that his horde should swarm into the cylinders, that the city may be looted and burned, the people destroyed or enslaved?" I shuddered involuntarily at the thought of the uncontrolled hordes of Pa-Kur among the spires of Ar, butcher... |
10 |
| 17 | 24 |
Some of the defenders were opening the veins of surviving tarns, to drink the blood. |
10 |
| 18 | 162 |
They were drenched with sweat; their clothing was torn; their weapons, drawn, were red with blood. |
10 |
| 18 | 171 |
I struck and parried and struck again, my sword flashing forth and drinking blood again and again. |
10 |
| 19 | 48 |
The Initiates themselves do not execute their victims, as the shedding of blood is forbidden by those beliefs they regard as sacred. |
10 |
| 19 | 204 |
I felt the warm, wet sensation of blood. |
10 |
| 19 | 216 |
Trembling, she stood beside me, and we took one another in our arms, the blood from my wound staining her robe. |
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| 20 | 54 |
I cut my hand with the ring, to make myself bleed, and I laughed with joy as I felt the pain and saw the blood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 105 |
The darkness returned, and in the next flash of lightning I examined the blood again, but it was only blood, the blood of a sleen I had killed on the road to Ko-ro-ba. |
10 |
| 26 | 107 |
But I go to the Sardar for more than truth; foremost in my brain there burns, like an imperative of steel, the cry for blood-vengeance, mine by sword-right, mine by the affinities of blood and caste and city, mine for I am one pledged to avenge a vanished people, fallen walls and towers, a city frow... |
10 |
| 3 | 85 |
More than one are the peasant fields of Gor which have been freshened with the blood of foolish warriors. |
10 |
| 4 | 11 |
The chemical responses of the bladderlike pods produce a mechanical pumping action, and the blood is sucked into the plant to nourish it. |
10 |
| 4 | 15 |
Already my blood, black in the silvery night, mixed with the juices of the plant, stained the stem even to the roots. |
10 |
| 4 | 82 |
My arm was bloody, but the blood was mostly that of the sleen. |
10 |
| 4 | 92 |
The raw meat, hot with the blood of the animal, nourished me, and I crouched beside my kill on the road to Ko-ro-ba, another predator among predators. |
10 |
| 4 | 99 |
Then, soberly, though I acknowledged it as a superstition, I performed the Gorean ritual of looking into the blood. |
10 |
| 4 | 100 |
With my cupped hands I drank a mouthful of blood, and then, holding another in my hands, I waited for the next flash of lightning. |
10 |
| 4 | 101 |
One looks into the blood in one's cupped hands. |
10 |
| 4 | 103 |
The lightning flashed again, and I stared into the blood. |
10 |
| 4 | 104 |
In that brief moment, in the tiny pool of blood I held, I saw not myself but a strange face, like a globe of gold with disklike eyes, a face like none I had ever seen, a face that struck an eerie terror into my heart. |
10 |
| 4 | 107 |
I drank the blood, completing the ritual. |
10 |
| 5 | 5 |
Whereas Ar was glorious, a city of imposing grandeur, that acknowledged even by its blood foes; whereas Thentis had the proud violence of the rude mountains of Thentis for its setting; whereas Port Kar could boast the broad Tamber for its sister, and the gleaming, mysterious Thassa beyond, I thought... |
10 |
| 6 | 31 |
I rejoiced that in at least one city on Gor the free women were not expected to wear the Robes of Concealment, confine their activities largely to their own quarters, and speak only to their blood relatives and, eventually, the Free Companion. |
10 |
| 10 | 82 |
I noted grimly that its leather was wet with my blood. |
10 |
| 11 | 264 |
She pointed her hand imperiously at me, that hand wearing its glove of gold, now spattered with my blood, wet and dark from the sweat of her hand. |
10 |
| 13 | 109 |
"Let there be blood," he said. |
10 |
| 13 | 126 |
Once I was not so fortunate and a steel horn furrowed my side, leaving a channel of blood. |
10 |
| 14 | 142 |
It was now stained with my blood. |
10 |
| 14 | 205 |
On every hand, robes and regalia flying, the silver masks of Tharna which had so insolently screamed but moments before for blood fled now for their lives in panic-stricken rout, trampling one another, scratching and tearing at one another, scrambling over the benches, thrusting one another even ove... |
10 |
| 18 | 118 |
My hands bled on the grating, the blood falling back in my upturned face, but I would not release the bars. |
10 |
| 19 | 23 |
"Do not stain your chains with the blood of this serpent". |
10 |
| 20 | 67 |
Chronology in Ar is figured, happily enough, not from its Administrator Lists, but from its mythical founding by the first man on Gor, a hero whom the Priest-Kings are said to have formed from the mud of the earth and the blood of tarns. |
10 |
| 22 | 24 |
"Ah, yes," she said, "a warrior is unwilling to have the blood of a woman on his sword". |
10 |
| 22 | 39 |
There was a tiny drop of blood on her lips. |
10 |
| 22 | 40 |
I shook my head to drive away the thought that I wanted with my tongue to taste the blood on her lips, to kiss it from her mouth. |
10 |
| 22 | 146 |
In those days it had been a portion of the Rites of Submission, as practiced in Tharna, to strip and bind the captive with yellow cords and place her on a scarlet rug, the yellow of the cord being symbolic of talenders, a flower often associated with feminine love and beauty, the scarlet of the rug ... |
10 |
| 23 | 129 |
His gray garment with its scarlet strip of cloth on the shoulder was stained with blood. |
10 |
| 23 | 132 |
The helmet straps, the leather inside, and the blond hair of the soldier were soaked with his blood. |
10 |
| 23 | 137 |
The helmet had largely absorbed the blow but the blade of the striking instrument had creased the skull, accounting for the flow of blood. |
10 |
| 23 | 138 |
Most likely the force of the blow had rendered him unconscious and the blood had suggested to his assailant that the job was finished. |
10 |
| 23 | 176 |
He is just young and he has lost much blood". |
10 |
| 24 | 166 |
No more shed the blood of men of your own city. |
10 |
| 25 | 80 |
Blood from the animal's mouth ran down its fur and my arm. |
10 |
| 25 | 87 |
One ear had been slashed away from its head and fur on its left side was soaked with spurting blood. |
10 |
| 25 | 141 |
Her silver-gloved hands clenched in fury upon the one-strap and beneath those shimmering gauntlets I knew the knuckles, drained of blood, were white with rage. |
10 |
| 26 | 19 |
Blood was high in the streets of Tharna after the revolt and angry men, both rebels and defenders, joined in the brutal hunt for silver masks. |
10 |
| 26 | 53 |
They knelt before her—once proud silver masks, now terrified and helpless captives—on the same sparkling sand that had so often been stained with the blood of the men of Tharna. |
10 |
| 26 | 126 |
I have found it at the tables of sword companions and in the clash of the metals of war, in the touch of a girl's lips and hair, in the blood of a sleen, in the sands and chains of Tharna, in the scent of talenders and the hiss of the whip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 |
I had arrived four days before on tarnback at the black palisade that encircles the dreaded Sardar, those dark mountains, crowned with ice, consecrated to the Priest-Kings, forbidden to men, to mortals, to all creatures of flesh and blood. |
10 |
| 1 | 44 |
In the contests of scribes, on the other hand, the blood that is spilled is invisible and the valiant foemen retire in good order, reviling their enemies and recouping their forces for the next day's campaign. |
10 |
| 1 | 103 |
My business with the Priest-Kings is simple, as are most matters of honor and blood. |
10 |
| 2 | 31 |
The blood vessels in their necks and legs and arms began to distend until I feared they might burst open through the tortured flesh; the agonized muscles of their straining knotted bodies, like swollen leather, seemed to fill with pain as if pain were a fluid; their flesh seemed to fuse with the woo... |
10 |
| 3 | 25 |
My back felt wet with the blood from the second larl's claws. |
10 |
| 4 | 55 |
Then I began to feel rage creeping like hot, red vines through my blood. |
10 |
| 6 | 14 |
Vika seared this meat, as thick as the forearm of a warrior, on a small iron grill over a kindling of charcoal cylinders, so that the thin margin of the outside was black, crisp and flaky and sealed within by the touch of the fire was the blood-rich flesh, hot and fat with juice. |
10 |
| 7 | 50 |
Lara's lips had been rich and fine, sensitive and curious, tender, eager, hungry; the lips of Vika were maddening; I recalled those lips, full and red, pouting, defiant, scornful, scarlet with a slave girl's challenge to my blood; I wondered if Vika might be a bred slave, a Passion Slave, one of tho... |
10 |
| 8 | 85 |
I could taste a little blood and knew that some of the fragments from the sensors had cut my face. |
10 |
| 9 | 177 |
"In my veins," she said, "flows the blood of such an animal. |
10 |
| 9 | 178 |
In my veins flows the blood of a Passion Slave". |
10 |
| 9 | 217 |
Vika lay at my feet, a streak of blood at the corner of those lips that bore still the marks of my fierce kiss. |
10 |
| 12 | 229 |
Nothing might have happened in the last few moments save that one was breathing heavily and the other's face was spattered with his own blood. |
10 |
| 16 | 166 |
My old hatred of Vika now began once again to infuse my blood, and my hands ached to grip her and shake her until her bones might break and then throw her to my feet. |
10 |
| 24 | 63 |
Holding her wrist I sensed a tiny movement of blood in her veins. |
10 |
| 26 | 260 |
I wondered of the struggles of my own world as well as on Gor, struggles which over millennia had shaped the blood and inmost being of my species, perhaps conflicts over tunnels in cliffs to be fought with the savage cave bear, long dangerous weeks spent hunting the same game as the saber-toothed ti... |
10 |
| 26 | 261 |
As I thought of our primeval ancestor standing in the mouth of his cave one hand gripping a chipped stone and perhaps the other a torch, his mate behind him and his young hidden in the mosses at the back of the cave I wondered at the genetic gifts that would ensure the survival of man in so hostile ... |
10 |
| 30 | 103 |
I could taste the blood from the wound of the whip. |
10 |
| 32 | 340 |
She lowered her head to the torn body, its blood staining the silks she wore. |
10 |
| 33 | 61 |
Then he gestured to a subordinate, and the man, with a sword, opened the throat of the animal and it sank to its knees, the blood from its throat being caught in a golden laver held by a third man. |
10 |
| 33 | 62 |
While I waited impatiently two more men cut a thigh from the slain beast and this, dripping with grease and blood, was ordered cast upon the fire. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 602 |
There was a tiny stain of blood at its tip, and too there was a smear of blood on the skin of the small yellowish-white fruit. |
10 |
| 2 | 73 |
It is near Turia, in the spring, that the Omen Year is completed, when the omens are taken, usually over several days by hundreds of haruspexes, mostly readers of bosk blood and verr livers, to determine if they are favorable for a choosing of a Ubar San, a One Ubar, a Ubar who would be High Ubar, a... |
10 |
| 2 | 89 |
I suspected that this might be due to the hostilities and bickerings of the peoples among themselves; where people did not wish to unite, where they relished their autonomy, where they nursed old grievances and sang the glories of vengeance raids, where they considered all others, even those of the ... |
10 |
| 2 | 123 |
The Blood People, the Kassars. |
10 |
| 3 | 3 |
So gambling all on the respect of the Wagon Peoples for the courage of men, I made no move to defend myself but, heart pounding, blood racing, yet no sign visible of agitation on my face, without a quiver of a muscle or tendon betraying me, I stood calmly erect. |
10 |
| 3 | 16 |
My blood was racing. |
10 |
| 3 | 116 |
In their way I knew they were honoring me, that they had respected my stand in the matter of the charging lances, that now they were gambling to see who would win me, to whose weapons my blood must flow, beneath the paws of whose kaiila I must fall bloodied to the earth. |
10 |
| 3 | 132 |
The magnificent vitality of that smell, so offensive to some, astonished and thrilled me; it spoke to me of the insurgence and the swell of life itself, ebullient, raw, overflowing, unconquerable, primitive, shuffling, smelling, basic, animal, stamping, snorting, moving, an avalanche of tissue and b... |
10 |
| 4 | 10 |
Four times the point struck me drawing blood, but he did not have the weight of the leaping animal behind his thrust; he thrust at arm's length, the point scarcely reaching me. |
10 |
| 8 | 38 |
The Wagon Peoples sometimes are also willing to barter silks to the Turians, but commonly they keep these for their own slave girls, who wear them in the secrecy of the wagons; free women, incidentally, among the Wagon Peoples are not permitted to wear silk; it is claimed by those of the Wagons, del... |
10 |
| 8 | 62 |
"Tospit!" called Conrad of the Kassars, the Blood People, and the girl hastened to set another fruit on the wand. |
10 |
| 8 | 209 |
I was second rider to Kamchak, as Albrecht was to Conrad, he of the Kassars, the Blood People. |
10 |
| 8 | 229 |
I could see blood on the side of his neck, where it joins the shoulder. |
10 |
| 8 | 400 |
Prior to her entering the circle I had seen her moving about in the background, running a bit, loosening her legs, speeding the circulation of her blood. |
10 |
| 8 | 598 |
"There is blood on the weapon," said the judge. |
10 |
| 8 | 607 |
There was blood in her mouth. |
10 |
| 9 | 84 |
Many people scarcely glanced at us, in spite of the fact that we were theoretically blood foes. |
10 |
| 10 | 466 |
"You see," he said, "I am Champion of Turia and I have no particular wish to stain my blade with the blood of an urt". |
10 |
| 10 | 515 |
I saw a sudden, bright drop of blood on his thumb. |
10 |
| 10 | 571 |
I saw the first blood leap from the cheek of Kamras, and then again from his left arm, then from the thigh, then from an ear. |
10 |
| 10 | 574 |
"Slay him!" howled Aphris of Turia! For perhaps better than fifteen minutes, patiently, not hurrying, Kamchak of the Tuchuks shuffled after Kamras of Turia, touching him once more and ever again, each time leaving a quick, bright stain of blood on his tunic or body. |
10 |
| 10 | 575 |
And then, to my astonishment, and that of the throng who had gathered to witness the contest, I saw Kamras, Champion of Turia, weak from the loss of blood, fall to his knees before Kamchak of the Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 11 | 15 |
Her head snapped sideways and there was a streak of blood at the corner of her mouth. |
10 |
| 11 | 313 |
"Aiii!" he howled, jumping up and sticking his bleeding hand into his mouth, sucking the blood from the wound. |
10 |
| 13 | 49 |
"She is a woman," said Kamchak, "with blood". |
10 |
| 13 | 87 |
"Did you not see the secret blood of her?—That she is eager and ready—that she is fit prize for the steel of a master—that she is female, and," he added, "slave?" "No!" cried Elizabeth Cardwell. |
10 |
| 13 | 94 |
She knew, as well as we, that she had showed herself—that her blood had leaped within her and its memory must now mock the hysteria of her denial—that she had acknowledged to us and to herself, perhaps for the first time, the incontrovertible splendor of her beauty and its meaning. |
10 |
| 19 | 139 |
I hoped that the girl would not burst a blood vessel. |
10 |
| 21 | 362 |
"I want the blood of Saphrar of Turia," he cried. |
10 |
| 22 | 134 |
"Only the blood of Saphrar," said he. |
10 |
| 23 | 113 |
My men and those of Harold had now been decimated and there were few that had not lost blood. |
10 |
| 25 | 297 |
To almost anyone who would come upon her she might seem but a beautiful barbarian, fit presumably by birth and blood only for the collar of a master. |
10 |
| 25 | 371 |
"But what," I asked, "if the laws of nature and of human blood were more basic, more primitive and essential than the conventions and teachings of society—what if these old secrets and truths, if truths they be, had been concealed or forgotten, or subverted to the requirements of a society co... |
10 |
| 25 | 761 |
"It is strange," I said, "that when the full blood of a man is upon him, and he sees his female, and he will have her, that it should be then that he is not a true man". |
10 |
| 25 | 806 |
In her kiss I tasted blood, suddenly realizing that she had bitten me. |
10 |
| 25 | 844 |
She did not move, and then suddenly I felt the cut of her nails deep in my arms, and though her lips were open, her teeth were clenched, her head was back, the eyes closed, her hair tangled under her and over her body, and then her eyes seemed surprised, startled, and her shoulders lifted a bit from... |
10 |
| 26 | 50 |
"His blood is mine," said Kamchak. |
10 |
| 26 | 70 |
"I have waited long for the blood of Saphrar of Turia," he said. |
10 |
| 26 | 288 |
There were drops of blood and sweat on it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 108 |
When charity is in order, as when a man cannot work or a woman is alone, usually such is arranged through the caste organization, but sometimes through the clan, which is not specifically caste oriented but depends on ties of blood through the fifth degree. |
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| 2 | 187 |
It was argued that the citizens of Ar could scarcely remain strong and fearless unless accustomed to the sight of blood, of danger and death. |
10 |
| 4 | 77 |
Mixed with the blood and fluids of the body there was a smear of white at the end of the steel, the softened residue of a glaze of kanda paste, now melted by body heat, which had coated the tip of the blade. |
10 |
| 5 | 619 |
Further, I did have the business of vengeance to attend to, for there was a Warrior from Thentis who had died on a Koroban bridge, whose blood surely required the justice of the sword. |
10 |
| 6 | 56 |
For some reason, the man with the whip took the slave's hook knife, unsheathed it, and drew it across the slave's chest, leaving there a smear of blood. |
10 |
| 12 | 10 |
The wing of one bird was apparently broken, for the netmen, after binding it, quickly cut its throat, the blood falling through the net, staining it, soaking into the sand below in a brownish red patch. |
10 |
| 15 | 50 |
She walked gracefully, insolently, the movement of her firing my blood. |
10 |
| 15 | 88 |
There seems to me little of beauty in them and much of blood. |
10 |
| 15 | 410 |
It seemed incredible to me that Portus had come to the House of Cernus, for much bad blood had existed between the houses. |
10 |
| 16 | 40 |
Murmillius, in the games, returned with more brilliance than ever and, on the second day of En'Kara, with superb swordsmanship downed two foes, wounding them again and again, until even the crowd did not regard them as worth slaying, at which time Murmillius sheathed his sword, turned his back, and ... |
10 |
| 16 | 254 |
The crest on its head seemed to lift and each muscle and fiber in that great body seemed filled with blood and life. |
10 |
| 18 | 2 |
In the same instant the hurled knife struck a chest behind us and I had rolled over throwing my legs under me, trying to draw the sword from my sheath, when Ho-Tu, running, hook knife in hand, leaped upon me, the curved blade streaking for my throat; I threw my left hand between the knife and my thr... |
10 |
| 18 | 206 |
"I had," he said, "shortly before the fire developed a strain of urts resistant to the Dar-Kosis organism; a serum cultured from their blood was injected in other animals, which subsequently we were unable to infect. |
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| 18 | 278 |
Some blood had soaked through it. |
10 |
| 18 | 283 |
"Go!" "But it is not a serious wound," I said, pinching it a bit, letting some blood move from it, trickling down my forearm. |
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| 19 | 242 |
The cosmetics enhanced and heightened the drama of her great natural beauty, but with an insolent and deliberate coarseness that was a gauntlet thrown before the blood of men. |
10 |
| 20 | 32 |
"Please, Cernus!" cried Portus as a long line of blood burst open across his chest. |
10 |
| 20 | 34 |
Then Portus tried to fight but, weakened, unskilled, clumsy, he stumbled about, being again and again streaked with blood, no cut mortal. |
10 |
| 20 | 35 |
At last he fell into the sand covered with blood at the feet of the laughing slave, quivering, whining, unable to move. |
10 |
| 20 | 37 |
Whimpering, Portus was dragged from the sand, leaving blood across the tiles, and was taken from the hall. |
10 |
| 20 | 337 |
"His blood," he said to Cernus, "is on your hands, not mine". |
10 |
| 21 | 245 |
With a cry of rage he threw himself at me and the cry died in his throat, he sprawling in his astonishment, his death and his blood, crosswise in the sand. |
10 |
| 22 | 29 |
I saw blood on the beak of the bird, its round black eyes, gleaming, wild. |
10 |
| 22 | 30 |
"Beware," said one of the men, "even if you be Gladius of Cos, for the tarn has tasted blood". |
10 |
| 22 | 70 |
"The tarn has tasted blood," said the leader. |
10 |
| 22 | 529 |
Ubar of the Skies suddenly uttered a scream that terrified even me, raising the hair on my neck and arms; it was not simply the challenge scream of his kind; it was a scream of pleasure, of horrifying eagerness, of the tarn's lust for blood and war; steel-shod talons grasping, screaming, beak tearin... |
10 |
| 22 | 530 |
Again and again the small bow, swift and vicious, fired, twenty barbed arrows in half an Ehn, tarnsmen struggling to reach me with their swords, thrusting with their heavy spears, and all the time Ubar of the Skies tearing and ripping, his beak and steel-shod talons engines of fierce carnage; I felt... |
10 |
| 22 | 534 |
Menicius of Port Kar was now far in the advance but my tarn, silent, save for the crack of his great wings, eyes bright, blood on its beak and steel-shod talons, again took up the pursuit. |
10 |
| 23 | 35 |
"He must bring blood! Sura must live!" The slave hurtled down the hall. |
10 |
| 23 | 146 |
Then I drew blood, from the left shoulder. |
10 |
| 23 | 148 |
He tore his robe from his body and wore only the belted house tunic; the left shoulder was soaked with blood. |
10 |
| 23 | 151 |
It was a superb attack but I met it and drew blood twice more, once from the left side, once from the chest. |
10 |
| 23 | 153 |
He coughed and spit blood. |
10 |
| 23 | 178 |
I saw the trail of blood on the boards of the hall, marking the flight of Cernus. |
10 |
| 23 | 203 |
I saw on the part of a body lying among the bones the chain and medallion of Cernus, now stained with blood, the tarn, gold, slave chains in its talons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |
The Blood Mark I could smell the sea, gleaming Thassa, in the myths said to be without a farther shore. |
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| 1 | 31 |
Gorean warriors, generally drawn from the cities, are warriors by blood, by caste; moreover, they are High Caste; the peasants, isolated in their narrow fields and villages, are Low Caste; indeed, the Peasant is regarded, by those of the cities, as being little more than an ignoble brute, ignorant a... |
10 |
| 1 | 108 |
The cloth was the color of blood; I was in little doubt as to its meaning. |
10 |
| 2 | 30 |
"Did you not see the warning marks," asked she, "the white marks, and the blood mark?" "I mean you," I said, "and your people, no harm". |
10 |
| 3 | 200 |
"We did not invite you to cross the line of the blood mark". |
10 |
| 4 | 294 |
And fused with this, excruciating in the pain of it, was my desire for her, the crying out of my blood that she had so, and deliberately, aroused. |
10 |
| 4 | 327 |
Suddenly, her hands in my hair, she thrust her lips savagely down on mine and, to my horror, my lips met hers, but could not withstand them and I felt her head forcing mine down and I felt her teeth cut into my lips and I tasted blood, my own, in my mouth, and then, insolently, her tongue thrust int... |
10 |
| 6 | 135 |
There was blood on its side. |
10 |
| 6 | 153 |
He fell to the matting, his helmet rolling, lost in his own blood. |
10 |
| 6 | 180 |
Spitting teeth, his face a mask of blood, he tried to draw his sword. |
10 |
| 7 | 71 |
There was some blood on it, from the blow I had received during the raid. |
10 |
| 8 | 508 |
There was a streak of blood across her face where her lip had been cut by her teeth. |
10 |
| 9 | 143 |
Could not Port Kar be attacked from the sea? The music of the musicians began to beat in my blood, reeling there. |
10 |
| 9 | 227 |
Then one of the men was down, vomiting in his blood, on his hands and knees. |
10 |
| 9 | 607 |
He lay there on his back, blood moving from his mouth, the chest of his tunic scarlet, fighting for breath. |
10 |
| 9 | 622 |
He coughed blood. |
10 |
| 9 | 659 |
His lips moved, but then he coughed, and there was more blood, and he stiffened, and then, his head falling to one side, he was only weight in our arms. |
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| 11 | 512 |
I think there are few of us here who are not more fond of gold than blood". |
10 |
| 11 | 540 |
"And," Samos went on, "it should preferably be one who is not well known to Cos and Tyros, one who has not angered them, nor proven himself to them a blood enemy upon gleaming Thassa". |
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| 17 | 155 |
What would they think of me as they fell beneath the cold waters of Thassa or reeled from the blows of sword blades, their death's blood in their mouths? Would they sing me then? And what guilt must I bear for each of those deaths, for it had been my words, those of an ignorant fool, which had sent ... |
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| 18 | 232 |
There was a splash of blood across his face, staining the left side of his face, his short, white, cropped hair and the golden ring in his ear. |
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| 18 | 673 |
Then he fell at my feet, his helmet rolling to the side, blood on the sleen-hair crest, that marking it as that of a captain. |
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| 12 | 42 |
Should they dare to wear it, they should beware, for it brings out the slave in a woman's blood, and the master in the blood of a man. |
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| 5 | 110 |
I found blood on one side of one of the cots. |
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| 5 | 149 |
I had not found bodies, though I had found, in one place, on a cot, a stain of blood. |
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| 8 | 404 |
In this he would place slides, containing drops of blood and urine, flecks of tissue, a strand of hair. |
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| 8 | 444 |
The guard did not beat me but he slapped me twice, bringing blood to my mouth. |
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| 8 | 1185 |
If we wished, we would take you into the forests and teach you what it is to be a slave!" As she spoke she jabbed at them with her spear, and a stain of blood was brought through the fabric of more than one tunic. |
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| 9 | 374 |
I tasted a bit of blood in my mouth, where my lip had been struck against my teeth. |
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| 10 | 658 |
It stood there then, holding the body of the sleen in its claws, its mouth dripping fur and blood. |
10 |
| 10 | 674 |
The beast looked at him, eyes blazing, its face drenched in blood. |
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| 11 | 15 |
The leather worker wiped away the bit of blood with a cloth. |
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| 13 | 885 |
There was blood on my face. |
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| 13 | 898 |
It had been blood from this cut which had struck my face. |
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| 13 | 901 |
It had already stopped bleeding, the fierce wind having clotted the blood in a ragged line. |
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| 13 | 902 |
On the left side of his arm, running from the wound, there were several almost horizontal, reddish lines, where, but moments before, tiny trickles of blood, unable to flow downward, had been whipped backward by the wind. |
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| 15 | 1002 |
"Tonight," had cried Rask of Treve, blood on his shield, his eyes like those of laughing tarns, "we will feast!" The men had clashed their weapons on their shields and the girls had scurried away that the feast might be prepared. |
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| 17 | 313 |
I did not wish more blood on my head. |
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| 14 | 152 |
It was an older blood, one almost forgotten, the blood of the warrior, the blood of the huntsman. |
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| 1 | 105 |
I had never forgotten her, the beautiful, olive-skinned, green-eyed Talena, so stunningly figured, such fantastic lips, the proud blood of Marlenus of Ar, Ubar of Ar, Ubar of Ubars, in her veins. |
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| 6 | 58 |
Even in the flickering light I could see the beautiful mottlings on her body, on the sides of her breasts and body, red and white, still rich and subtle in her hot, blood-charged skin. |
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| 6 | 70 |
How beautiful they were, large, delicate, sensitive now, almost painfully swollen with blood. |
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| 6 | 166 |
For more than a century there had been bad blood between Tyros and Ar. |
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| 6 | 170 |
The bad blood between Tyros and Ar had primarily to do with Tyros' financings of Vosk pirates, to harry river shipping and the northern borders of Ar. |
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| 6 | 1055 |
She turned back to face me, her eyes glazed, blood on her face. |
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| 6 | 1086 |
They were sweet and high, full and blood-charged. |
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| 7 | 197 |
There was blood on her hair. |
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| 7 | 215 |
I would permit some blood to wash from the wound, cleaning it. |
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| 7 | 222 |
She was sick from her wound and loss of blood. |
10 |
| 7 | 260 |
She had lost blood. |
10 |
| 7 | 281 |
She had lost blood. |
10 |
| 8 | 13 |
Perhaps it was an arrogance of my Gorean blood that had led me to my decision. |
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| 8 | 235 |
There was blood at my chest and stomach. |
10 |
| 9 | 431 |
My blood leaped before her beauty. |
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| 11 | 746 |
It seems that they, at least on my former world, Earth, claim to wish to relate to, and profess to esteem, as is prescribed for them, only weak men, soft men, little men, pleasant, sensitive, charming, predictable males, insecure, deferential, docile, accommodating fellows, trained to view their mas... |
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| 11 | 846 |
When he thrust her back there was blood at her mouth, and fear in her eyes. |
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| 12 | 13 |
Human structures are group structures, and closed groups, with senses of their own best interest, yet open enough and intelligent enough to accept a certain amount, carefully selected, of new and driving blood, regulate society. |
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| 14 | 151 |
The blood in me that I felt then was not that of the merchant. |
10 |
| 14 | 231 |
They stood, scarcely moving, but I could sense the movement of the drum in their blood. |
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| 16 | 155 |
Mira, staked out, blindfolded, felt a woman's strong hand take the blood from her thigh and smear it across her belly and about her body. |
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| 16 | 187 |
Soon, prowling about in the brush, some yards away, was a sleen, drawn by the smell of the fresh blood, her own, smeared on Mira's slave body. |
10 |
| 16 | 201 |
It thrust its snout against her body, and began to lick at the blood. |
10 |
| 16 | 208 |
First the sleen began to lick the blood from her body. |
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| 18 | 474 |
In the legends of others they appear as blond giants, breathing fire, shattering doors, giants taller than trees, with pointed ears and eyes like fire and hands like great claws and hooks; they are seen as savages, as barbarians, as beasts blood-thirsty and mad with killing, with braided hair, clad ... |
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| 18 | 476 |
In Gorean legends the Priest-Kings are said to have formed man from the mud of the earth and the blood of tarns. |
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| 18 | 482 |
On the other hand, that night, one of the gods, curious, or perhaps careless, or perhaps driven from the hall and angry, threw down upon the ground his own great ax, and upon this ax he poured paga and his own blood, and the ax laughed and leaped up, and ran away. |
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| 19 | 277 |
"I will tear out your eyes! I will cut your throat! She-sleen! She-sleen!" Sarus struck Hura, with the back of his hand, suddenly, knocking her head to one side, splattering blood across her teeth. |
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| 20 | 17 |
I felt a blade cut my tunic, and felt blood at my waist. |
10 |
| 20 | 30 |
I felt blood course down my arm. |
10 |
| 20 | 257 |
I felt my tunic thick with blood at my left side. |
10 |
| 20 | 258 |
There was blood from a cut on my left arm. |
10 |
| 21 | 25 |
The side of my tunic, the yellow of Tyros, was thick and stiff with clotted blood. |
10 |
| 21 | 26 |
I could feel the dried blood on my left arm, rough and flaking, even between the fingers, where it had run over my wrist and hand. |
10 |
| 21 | 199 |
I had lost blood. |
10 |
| 21 | 206 |
I wanted to rest, I had lost blood. |
10 |
| 21 | 258 |
But I knew that it was my own blood. |
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| 1 | 23 |
Her hair was blond and straight, tied behind her head with a ribbon of blue wool, from the bounding Hurt, dyed in the blood of the Vosk sorp. |
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| 1 | 26 |
He was a pirate, and a cutthroat, but he was not unhappy in his death; he had died by the sword, which would have been his choice, and before he had died he had looked again upon gleaming Thassa; it is called the death of blood and the sea; he died not unhappy; men of Port Kar do not care to die in ... |
10 |
| 1 | 31 |
To my astonishment, however, by the laws of Port Kar, the ships, properties and chattels of Surbus, he having been vanquished in fair combat and permitted the death of blood and sea, became mine; his men stood ready to obey me; his ships became mine to command; his hall became my hall, his riches mi... |
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| 1 | 187 |
I know of no prouder, more self-reliant, more magnificent creature than the free Gorean, male or female; they are often touchy, and viciously tempered, but they are seldom petty or small; moreover they do not hate and fear their bodies or their instincts; when they restrain themselves it is a victor... |
10 |
| 1 | 419 |
"In my veins," she said, "flows the blood of Marlenus of Ar. |
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| 1 | 688 |
The blood and the paga were hot and dark within me. |
10 |
| 1 | 698 |
"I drink," said I, "to the blood of beasts". |
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| 2 | 213 |
At the foot of the altar beasts were sometimes sacrificed, their horns held, their heads twisted, the blood from their opened throats caught in shallow golden bowls, to be poured upon the altar; too, choice portions of their flesh would be burnt upon the altar, the smoke escaping through a small hol... |
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| 2 | 259 |
There were the golden bowls used to gather the blood of the sacrificed animals; cups used to pour libations to Priest-Kings; vessels containing oils; lavers in which the celebrants of the rites might cleanse their hands from their work; there were even the small bowls of coins, brought as offerings ... |
10 |
| 2 | 353 |
Then he with his ax, with a single swing, spattering blood on the sheets of gold, cut the head from the body of the High Initiate of Kassau, and leaped, booted, to the height of the very altar of the temple itself. |
10 |
| 3 | 4 |
I smelled blood. |
10 |
| 3 | 51 |
The people in the temple, many of them spattered with the blood of their neighbors, some severely wounded, threw themselves, shuddering, man and woman, and child, to their stomachs. |
10 |
| 3 | 353 |
How fantastic, how strange, I thought, is the blood of beasts, and I realized, too, that I was a beast, and wondered on what might be the nature of those instincts which must be my own. |
10 |
| 5 | 132 |
She dangled there, in pain, her body that of a stripped bondmaid, exquisite, tempting, squirming, a taunt to the blood of the men of Thorgard of Scagnar. |
10 |
| 6 | 390 |
Blood, as to the shark, was an agitant to their systems. |
10 |
| 9 | 420 |
This is completely clear in their fantasies; Earth culture, of course, gives little scope to these blood needs of the beauties of our race; accordingly, these needs, frustrated, tend to express themselves in neurosis, hysteria and hostility. |
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| 10 | 153 |
When the first blood touches the cloak the match may, at the agreement of the combatants, or in the discretion of one of the two referees, be terminated; a price of three silver tarn disks is then paid to the victor by the loser; the winner commonly then performs a sacrifice; if the winner is rich, ... |
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| 10 | 265 |
"My blood," said Bjarni of Thorstein Camp, "is on the leather". |
10 |
| 10 | 314 |
We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever... |
10 |
| 10 | 371 |
The subtle tensions of dominance and submission, universal in the animal world, remain ineradicably in our blood; they may be thwarted and frustrated but, thwarted and frustrated, they will remain. |
10 |
| 10 | 373 |
The fact that humans have minds does not cancel the truths of the blood, but permits their enrichment and enhancement, their expression in physical and psychological ecstasies far beyond the reach of simpler organisms; the female slave submits to her master in a thousand dimensions, in each of which... |
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| 11 | 248 |
The blood of the men of Torvaldsland began to rage. |
10 |
| 12 | 79 |
The great ring of the temple of Thor, stained in the blood of the sacrificial ox, was brought. |
10 |
| 13 | 55 |
The rune-priest held up the heavy, golden ring of Thor, the temple ring itself, stained in the blood of the sacrificial ox. |
10 |
| 13 | 420 |
My heart bounded, my blood raced, I struck, again and again, my left shoulder with the palm of my right hand. |
10 |
| 13 | 450 |
It threw back its head and opened its jaws, eyes blazing, and uttered the blood roar of the aroused Kur; then it bent over, regarding us, shoulders hunched, its claws leaping from its soft, furred sheaths; it then laid its ears back flat against the sides of its great head. |
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| 13 | 452 |
Then, other Kurii behind it, crowding about it, past it, it shrieked, lips drawn back, with a hideous sound, which, somehow, from its lips and mien, and mostly from its eyes, I took to be a sign of pleasure, of anticipation; I would learn later that this sound is instinctively uttered by Kurii when ... |
10 |
| 13 | 453 |
This cry, like a stimulus, acted upon the others, as well; almost instantly, with the velocity that the stranger signal can course through a pack of urts, this shriek was picked up by those with it; then, the hall filled with their horrid howling, eyes blazing, led by the Kur with the golden band, f... |
10 |
| 14 | 10 |
My left hand slipped in the dirt, in blood. |
10 |
| 14 | 64 |
The blood of Kurii, like that of men, is red, and of similar chemical composition. |
10 |
| 14 | 66 |
The major difference between the blood content of the Kur and of men is that the plasma of the Kur contains a greater percentage of salt, this acting in water primarily as a protein solvent. |
10 |
| 14 | 121 |
At the side of its mouth were saliva and blood, the fur matted. |
10 |
| 14 | 143 |
His horror, seeing his fallen brother of the killing blood, had now become rage, outrage. |
10 |
| 14 | 147 |
Again in the hall of Svein Blue Tooth rang the blood shriek of the Kurii. |
10 |
| 14 | 156 |
We slipped in the blood. |
10 |
| 14 | 195 |
One who begged mercy in the center of the hall was cut in twain, the blade of the ax driving into the very dirt itself, emerging covered with dirt and blood, streaked with ash. |
10 |
| 14 | 251 |
Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st... |
10 |
| 15 | 25 |
Twice we were pursued, but, in the midst of the scents, and distracted by fresh blood, our pursuers turned aside. |
10 |
| 15 | 390 |
"Ivar!" I heard the blood shriek of an unseen Kur. |
10 |
| 17 | 12 |
It had tasted the blood of a Kur guard. |
10 |
| 17 | 113 |
The military Kur, in this sense a unit, is commanded by a "Blood". |
10 |
| 17 | 114 |
This seems peculiar perhaps but is explained by ancient Kurii belief, that thought is a function of the blood. |
10 |
| 17 | 119 |
The commander of a military Kur, thus, might better be thought of as the "brain" or "mind," but continues, in their languages, to be spoken of as the "blood". |
10 |
| 17 | 120 |
A "blood" thus commands the two eyes and the two hands. |
10 |
| 17 | 122 |
This has one hundred and eighty animals, including subalterns and leaders, and is itself commanded by a "Blood," whose rank is indicated by two rings on the left arm. |
10 |
| 17 | 125 |
A March is commanded by a Blood, whose rank is indicated by one ring on the left arm. |
10 |
| 17 | 129 |
The commander, or Blood, of a March wears only a single, simple reddish ring. |
10 |
| 17 | 139 |
A People would be commanded by a "Blood" of the People. |
10 |
| 17 | 243 |
I could see blood beginning to move through the veins of its forehead. |
10 |
| 17 | 256 |
To my horror I saw him sucking at his own blood. |
10 |
| 17 | 276 |
The veins in the neck, and on the forehead, of the giant bulged, swollen with pounding blood. |
10 |
| 18 | 25 |
I stood mighty and terrible, the ax ready, my clothes drenched with blood, the Kur rolling and jerking at my feet. |
10 |
| 18 | 84 |
The side of its furred leg was drenched with blood. |
10 |
| 18 | 98 |
It was weak from the loss of blood. |
10 |
| 18 | 108 |
There was Kur blood on his chest and against the side of his face. |
10 |
| 18 | 186 |
Many were covered with blood. |
10 |
| 18 | 257 |
Surely he was not a "Blood" of a "People". |
10 |
| 18 | 261 |
"Kurii react to blood, reflexively". |
10 |
| 18 | 262 |
"They have had their fill of blood," said Ivar Forkbeard. |
10 |
| 18 | 264 |
Even I could smell blood, mixing with the smoke of fires, where Kurii lodges burned. |
10 |
| 18 | 336 |
Many times had his ax in the ferocities of combat drunk of the blood of Kurii. |
10 |
| 18 | 398 |
The dirt, in many places, was soft, from the blood. |
10 |
| 18 | 401 |
The smell was heavy, and sweet, like blood. |
10 |
| 18 | 406 |
Two were being dressed for the spit; two, as yet, had been untouched; blood was being drained into a helmet from the neck of the fifth. |
10 |
| 18 | 413 |
I looked into the blood. |
10 |
| 18 | 415 |
Only the blood of a Kur. |
10 |
| 18 | 418 |
Then, taking the helmet back, and throwing his head back, he drained it, blood running at the side of his mouth, trickling to the fur at the collar of his jacket. |
10 |
| 18 | 636 |
This fact, red with blood of both beasts and men, had been demonstrated in a remote valley of the north. |
10 |
| 20 | 103 |
In my way, to use concepts you may grasp, I am a prince among my people, not only in blood, but by battle, for in such a way only does one become prince among the Kurii. |
10 |
| 21 | 174 |
Upon my return to Tyros, Sullius inquired if our foes had been wounded, and I informed him that indeed we had struck you, drawing blood. |
10 |
| 21 | 199 |
"On the tenth day, on his arms and legs, and twice, transversely, across his right cheekbone, that his face be scarred and his shame known, I drew the poisoned blade, drawing blood with each stroke". |
10 |
| 22 | 96 |
In the north my blood had found itself, learning itself; in the north I had learned strength, and how to stand alone. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 274 |
"The blood! The blood!" I saw a stain of blood on the floor, and then a bloody print, of a heavy, clawed foot. |
10 |
| 7 | 263 |
"Ho!" Across the floor, now wet with blood, and blood-soaked straw, the men, in their line, Ibn Saran remaining at the door, charged. |
10 |
| 13 | 389 |
To know a Kur one must, perhaps, in the moonlight, face it with an ax, smell the musk of its murderous rage, see the eyes, the intelligence, the sinuous, hunched might of it, the blood black at its jaws, hear the blood cry, stand against its charge. |
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| 1 | 83 |
Man, on Earth, had finally succeeded, after long centuries, in creating a society in which he had no essential place; he had, at last, built a house in which he could not live, in which he had left not one room suitable for human habitation; he called it a home; in it he was a stranger; his habitat,... |
10 |
| 1 | 499 |
He would feed himself only with the hand which, wielding steel, could take blood. |
10 |
| 1 | 505 |
She, and I, together, tasted the blood and rouge of her subjugation. |
10 |
| 1 | 506 |
She drew back slightly, blood at the side of her mouth. |
10 |
| 1 | 771 |
The persistence, the aggression, the fevers of the blood, the lust, the territoriality of such beasts, would be largely unintelligible to them. |
10 |
| 2 | 287 |
Most importantly I had gathered that there was brewing bad blood between the tribes of the Kavars and the Aretai. |
10 |
| 2 | 456 |
Her body stiffened, and she shut her eyes, as his hands, those of a Gorean flesh appraiser, informed, sensitive, professional, proficient, made swift assessment of the textures of her skin, varying at different points on the body, the tensilities of her musculature, the varying softness and firmness... |
10 |
| 2 | 645 |
The leader, face bleeding, wiped the blood from his forehead from his eyes, stepping back. |
10 |
| 3 | 10 |
Of the past forty passages eight had been divided, no blood adjudged drawn. |
10 |
| 3 | 66 |
One passage, divided between us, adjudged as "no blood drawn," might have been disputed. |
10 |
| 3 | 211 |
The heads of four of the men had been torn from them; the heads of two others had been half bitten from them; one man's throat looked as though it had been struck twice with parallel hatchets; I was familiar with the spacing of the wounds; two men had lost arms, one a leg; one of the men without an ... |
10 |
| 4 | 179 |
It is not unusual for a woman to fear her womanhood; what is less generally recognized is that many men fear their own manhood; they conceal their blood; they pretend it does not exist; it is even dangerous, in such a society, to suggest that men consider honesty in such matters, to suggest that the... |
10 |
| 5 | 113 |
His hand was on her body, and she, writhing, weeping, with her heels, pushing herself, back scraping on the bark, climbed almost a foot up the slanting trunk, before he, taking her in his arms, through her veil, kissed her, fiercely, again and again, with the rape-kisses of a master, impressed on th... |
10 |
| 5 | 132 |
Yes, she was a pretty slave, and the small, diaphanous veil, now with its bit of blood in the silk, where the young nomad's teeth had cut her lip, given her nudity, was a delightful irony. |
10 |
| 5 | 745 |
Did the girl, in Lydius, truly think I would have freed her, yielding to her pleadings, I, in whose veins flowed Gorean blood, whose tarn she had cost him? I had not slain her. |
10 |
| 5 | 876 |
There was blood deep in the silk of the cushions. |
10 |
| 7 | 129 |
There was little sound then, only that of a large tongue, moving in blood, tasting, curious. |
10 |
| 7 | 182 |
It is a creature of flesh and blood. |
10 |
| 7 | 255 |
Then he cried out, a short cry, brief; there was a sound, exploding, velvet-soft, like a bubble of air being forced upward through water; the side of his neck had been bitten away; arterial blood, driven by the blind pump of the heart, pulsed. |
10 |
| 7 | 264 |
The blood, between the stones, formed tiny rivers. |
10 |
| 7 | 266 |
There was blood on his scimitar. |
10 |
| 7 | 270 |
There was a roar of pain, a howl of rage, and I saw that his scimitar, to six inches, was splashed with the bright blood of the Kur, clearly visible. |
10 |
| 7 | 275 |
Then drops of blood, as if from nowhere, dropping, one after the other, to the stones. |
10 |
| 7 | 276 |
"Attack at the blood!" cried Ibn Saran. |
10 |
| 7 | 277 |
The men converged at the blood, striking. |
10 |
| 7 | 281 |
The men now circled where the blood fell, which marked the path of the beast. |
10 |
| 7 | 286 |
I smiled, seeing, in the confusion, the blood, drop by drop, slip to the door of the cell, move across the stones, out into the hall, and through the threshold, then up the twisting, narrow, concave stairs. |
10 |
| 7 | 291 |
He saw the blood. |
10 |
| 7 | 296 |
I surmised that they had had little difficulty in following the trail of blood. |
10 |
| 7 | 299 |
I had adjudged this by the blood rain on the scimitar, in its rivulets. |
10 |
| 7 | 308 |
The cell had been cleaned, straw and wastes removed, rinsed down; most of the blood had been scrubbed from the stones; behind remained, here and there, only some stubborn, darkish stains; new straw had been spread; the kort rinds had been taken. |
10 |
| 11 | 503 |
Almost at that moment the trap door thrust up and a man's face appeared; Hassan's man thrust his scimitar through the jaw and wrenched it free, loose with blood and teeth and kicked shut the door. |
10 |
| 12 | 130 |
But the true female, the awakened, helpless prisoner of her instincts and blood, with a fine mind, a deep, lovely, sensitive mind, imaginative and inventive, is the one the Goreans want, head down, at their feet. |
10 |
| 12 | 376 |
"It would be easy," I said, "to bring blood from them in a master's kiss". |
10 |
| 12 | 664 |
I then, with her virgin blood, on her belly, traced the Tahari slave mark. |
10 |
| 13 | 10 |
I could feel blood inside the wrappings. |
10 |
| 13 | 382 |
It is highly intelligent, it lusts for blood, it will kill for territory and meat. |
10 |
| 14 | 7 |
I could feel blood on my left leg, over the leather wrappings, where the edge of a crust, ragged, hot, had sawed it open. |
10 |
| 14 | 501 |
The blood coursed through my body. |
10 |
| 14 | 538 |
I felt the blood and salt in the split shreds of the leather wrappings on my legs. |
10 |
| 14 | 602 |
I was startled that there was so little blood, for the wound was deep. |
10 |
| 14 | 603 |
It was as though the man had no blood to bleed. |
10 |
| 14 | 606 |
To my horror I saw the man press his mouth to the wound, sucking at the bit of blood. |
10 |
| 14 | 607 |
He did not move, but stood in the crusts, sucking at the blood. |
10 |
| 17 | 152 |
To know these truths he needs little more than his brain, his blood, his eyes and hands. |
10 |
| 17 | 304 |
The beams beneath the body of the kennel master were drenched with blood. |
10 |
| 17 | 307 |
There was salt on my hands, blood. |
10 |
| 17 | 309 |
"I did not know there could be so much blood in a man," said one of the men behind me. |
10 |
| 19 | 139 |
It was only as it approached that I understood it to be hundreds of feet in height, perhaps a hundred pasangs in width; the sky above it was gray, then black like smoke; then I could watch it no longer, that I might not be blinded; I shielded my eyes with my hands; I turned my back to it; I crouched... |
10 |
| 20 | 102 |
It must, at one time, have lost much blood. |
10 |
| 21 | 68 |
The leather I wore about my feet was in tatters, but in the footprints of the Kur there was blood. |
10 |
| 21 | 93 |
There was blood in them. |
10 |
| 21 | 381 |
It was covered with blood, that I assumed of men it had slain. |
10 |
| 21 | 388 |
I suppose it had little blood to bleed. |
10 |
| 21 | 487 |
A diversion would be ineffective, for what could draw the Kur from his position? If the blood of the slaughtered humans about had not been sufficient to override his obedience to the dark imperatives of the steel worlds, I did not think anything I might contrive could lure him forth. |
10 |
| 21 | 488 |
He had resisted blood; the will of this Kur, restraining its instincts of feasting and carnival, must be mighty indeed. |
10 |
| 21 | 589 |
It tried to hold the wire, and climb on it, or relieve the pressure on its throat, but its great paws slipped on the slender strand; then its weight began to pull me upward; I, hands knotted in the insulated portion of the wire, kicked the Kur back as it reached for me; then I was above it, being dr... |
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| 21 | 600 |
Below me, to my horror, I saw the Kur, a mass of blood, struggle to its feet. |
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| 21 | 622 |
Blood no longer ran from its throat. |
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| 23 | 7 |
He was almost lame; his feet were bloody; his legs were covered with dust and sweat, and marked with blood, where he had followed, tethered, through brush. |
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| 23 | 60 |
The blood of the warrior in me raced. |
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| 24 | 595 |
She looked up at me, disbelievingly, blood at her lip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 163 |
I could scarcely see; I fought blackness and pain and seething light; I was on my hands and knees in the grass, my head down; I tasted blood; the collar hurt my neck; I spit blood into the grass; he had struck me; did he not know I was a woman! He jerked me by the collar and chain to his knees; he t... |
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| 2 | 900 |
Blood ran from my mouth; other blood I swallowed. |
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| 4 | 14 |
On the interior of my left thigh, reddish brown, dried now, lay a streak of blood, my virgin blood, which never again would I be able to shed. |
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| 22 | 75 |
I do not think the longing of men is an oddity in the genetic history of a species; I think there is a reciprocity which has been intricately evolved; this desire, this longing for a beautiful slave, for a beautiful female, who stands to him as slave to master, which is universal in glandularly norm... |
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| 1 | 127 |
In this atmosphere, my blood charged with oxygen, I found that I could detect odors which had eluded me before; it was as though an entire new dimension of experience had suddenly opened to me; yet I suppose it was only that here, in this place, my body did not have reason to fight its world, shutti... |
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| 2 | 78 |
I tasted blood. |
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| 2 | 204 |
There was blood at my mouth. |
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| 2 | 529 |
The man held his bloodied tunic to his wound, to stanch the flow of blood. |
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| 2 | 911 |
Gone from me in that moment, with the blood that ran from my mouth, were my illusions. |
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| 8 | 66 |
The blood stained through the cloth. |
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| 8 | 155 |
If they can be taken within the first two months of their life, which seems to be a critical period, before they have tasted blood and meat in the wild, and made their own kills, there is apparently a reasonably good chance that they can be domesticated; otherwise, generally not. |
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| 9 | 1008 |
The caste system is not inflexible and there are opportunities for altering caste, but men seldom avail themselves of them; they take great pride in their castes, often comparing others' castes unfavorably to their own; a Gorean's caste, by the time he reaches adulthood, seems to have become a part ... |
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| 9 | 1425 |
I was naked, and my body was covered with dried blood and dirt. |
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| 9 | 1698 |
Thurnus seized the staff and, suddenly, with strength like that of a larl, jerked the young man toward him, at the same time kicking upward savagely, blasting the fellow in the teeth with the heel of his sandal, the young man reeling back, blood spattering from his nose and mouth, clutching at his f... |
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| 9 | 1703 |
I had little doubt that one or more had been broken; the second fellow lay inert in the dirt, blood at the side of his head. |
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| 9 | 1957 |
He crouched down and, with the back of his hand, struck her across the mouth, leaving blood across the side of her face. |
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| 9 | 2008 |
"And, too, this night," said Ladletender, "I drink to one with whom I do not share caste but that which is stronger than caste, the blood of brotherhood, Thurnus, he of Tabuk's Ford". |
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| 14 | 221 |
Bad blood now existed between them. |
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| 16 | 8 |
I tried with my right foot to press against the wound, to stanch the flow of blood. |
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| 19 | 79 |
I tasted a drop of blood. |
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| 20 | 227 |
I tasted blood in my mouth. |
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| 26 | 223 |
Further, the youth of Gor, in most cities, must be vouched for by citizens of the city, not related in blood to him, and be questioned before a committee of citizens, intent upon determining his worthiness or lack thereof to take the Home Stone of the city as his own. |
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| 26 | 460 |
I saw the needle run through and a tiny spot of blood. |
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| 27 | 68 |
He cuffed her sharply back, bringing blood to her mouth. |
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| 27 | 214 |
I saw teeth flying, and blood, and a jaw broken. |
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| 27 | 677 |
He slapped aside my head, bringing blood to my mouth. |
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| 29 | 158 |
I tasted a bit of blood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 256 |
I had looked into the blood, cupped in my hands, but had seen nothing, only the blood of a beast. |
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| 1 | 242 |
I was covered with its blood. |
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| 1 | 250 |
I shared bits of the heart of the sleen with my men, and, together, cupping our hands, we drank its blood in a ritual of sleen hunters. |
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| 1 | 253 |
I had looked into the blood, cupped in my hands. |
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| 1 | 254 |
It is said that if one sees oneself black and wasted in the blood, one will perish of disease; if one sees oneself torn and bloody, one will perish in battle; if one sees oneself old and gray one will die in peace and leave children. |
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| 1 | 259 |
I did not think I would again look into the blood of a sleen. |
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| 1 | 261 |
I wiped the blood from my hands on my thighs. |
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| 1 | 298 |
She knelt in the blood of the sleen. |
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| 1 | 305 |
I was covered with the blood of the sleen. |
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| 1 | 307 |
I put her to her back on the tiles in the sleen's blood. |
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| 1 | 330 |
I thrust her back down, shoulders and hair into the blood. |
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| 1 | 404 |
She tried to rise up, but I held her down, her small shoulders down to the tiles in the blood. |
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| 1 | 419 |
I stood up, and she lay at my feet collared, in the sleen's blood. |
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| 1 | 437 |
She lowered her body, and lay quietly in the blood, frightened. |
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| 2 | 439 |
"Will our blood have been shed," he asked, "to bring about so miniscule an achievement, the contentment of the herd browsing among the dunes of boredom?" "They will have their petty concerns," I said, "which will seem important to them". |
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| 2 | 753 |
On the interior of her thigh there would be blood. |
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| 3 | 546 |
There was blood there. |
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| 3 | 1025 |
What man, truly close to a beautiful female, can fail to feel her in his blood, and want to own her? The slaver, I conjectured, knew his business. |
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| 3 | 1145 |
As hunters they live with blood and death. |
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| 3 | 1245 |
My nostrils flared, my blood moved now faster in my veins. |
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| 4 | 637 |
His head now lay half severed, blood on the peasant's sandals. |
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| 4 | 673 |
Others might attend to the work of stanching the flow of blood from the wounds of the merchant. |
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| 4 | 679 |
Would one risk one's throat and blood for a toy of wood or an ivory carving? "In that, and that alone," said the merchant, pointing to the object which the thief had held, and which he had dropped in our struggle. |
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| 6 | 797 |
I stood near the tarn, which had returned in the night, its beak smeared with blood and the hairs from the small yellow tabuk, of the sort which frequent Ka-la-na thickets. |
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| 11 | 412 |
I was weary then, and I had lost blood, from the wound in my leg, so I turned away, descended the steps of the whipping platform, and made my way to the hall, where I would sleep. |
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| 18 | 25 |
Suddenly, not more than a dozen feet from the boat, driving upward, rearing vertically, surging, expelling air in a great burst of noise, shedding icy water, in a tangle of lines and blood, burst the towering, cylindrical tonnage of the black Hunjer whale. |
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| 22 | 180 |
It circled the craft its mouth hot with blood flowing into the cold water. |
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| 22 | 183 |
The bone head, vanishing, sunk into its withers and it snapped downward, diving, bubbles breaking up to the surface, and swift blood. |
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| 22 | 213 |
It was dark about the animal, from the blood. |
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| 22 | 217 |
"It has lost much blood," I said. |
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| 22 | 243 |
"It is losing blood," I said. |
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| 22 | 286 |
"Consider the blood on your lance," he said. |
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| 22 | 288 |
New blood was splashed more than twenty-eight inches along the shaft. |
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| 22 | 292 |
He did not wish to lose what blood might be left in the animal. |
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| 22 | 293 |
Frozen blood is nutritious. |
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| 23 | 106 |
There was blood about its neck where the blade had cut at the side of the throat. |
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| 24 | 10 |
"I trailed it to where I encountered sled tracks, and blood in the snow, and the trampling of the snow by many feet". |
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| 24 | 21 |
Bones, and blood and hide, and such things, were a part of her world. |
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| 25 | 72 |
She looked up at me, blood about her mouth, the tether on her neck. |
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| 26 | 332 |
There was then hot fresh blood on the knife. |
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| 26 | 333 |
Another sleen, frenzied with the smell, ribs protruding from its fur, racked with hunger, hurried to the knife, licking at the blood. |
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| 26 | 335 |
In the frenzy of its hunger the sleen, further stimulated by the newly shed blood, redoubled its efforts to lap it up. |
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| 26 | 336 |
Another animal, larger, bit at it, and shouldered it from the blade, it then licking at the blood, unwittingly cutting itself, its mouth and tongue, as well. |
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| 26 | 337 |
There was dark blood, frozen about the stained, exposed blade. |
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| 26 | 345 |
The blood on it, in the moment it had been left alone, had frozen on the steel. |
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| 26 | 346 |
Two sleen fought to lick the frozen blood from the blade. |
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| 26 | 347 |
Instantly as the blade cut their lips and tongue there was again hot, fresh blood on the steel. |
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| 26 | 351 |
As a sleen weakened, or the stimulus of the blood became too great, other animals, tortured by their own hunger, attacked it. |
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| 28 | 280 |
There was blood at her lip. |
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| 29 | 56 |
There was no trace of blood on the tongue, or in the mouth or jaws, or on the lips or fur of the head you brought to camp. |
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| 30 | 165 |
Blood ran down his arm, staining the sand. |
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| 30 | 185 |
"Kill me," wept Drusus, and then, from the loss of blood, fell into the sand. |
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| 30 | 243 |
There was much screaming, and blood. |
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| 31 | 129 |
It was fresh, warm, still porous with blood. |
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| 31 | 181 |
The egg develops inside the body of the blood-nurser and, some months later, it tears its way free". |
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| 31 | 184 |
"It will, however, usually follow, unless it itself is a blood-nurser, which is drawn out, the first Kur it sees, providing it is either an egg-carrier or a nondominant". |
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| 31 | 205 |
"The egg-carriers can be frequently impregnated and frequently deposit the fertilized egg in a blood-nurser. |
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| 31 | 206 |
There are large numbers of blood-nursers. |
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| 31 | 208 |
In the same amount of time a Kur egg-carrier will develop seven to eight eggs, each of which may be fertilized and deposited in a blood-nurser". |
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| 31 | 210 |
"The young receive blood in the nurser," he said. |
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| 31 | 222 |
"We have also, where we knew of Kurii groups, sometimes managed to bring in egg-carriers and blood-nursers". |
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| 31 | 232 |
How could it be otherwise?" "There is first the dominant, and then the egg-carrier, and then the nondominant, and then, if one considers such things Kur, the blood-nurser". |
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| 34 | 169 |
It coughed, wracked with the pain of it, and spat clots of blood on the ice. |
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| 34 | 177 |
It rolled on the ice, leaving it dark with blood. |
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| 34 | 187 |
The ice was covered with blood, and defecation. |
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| 35 | 79 |
Kurii, with their large lungs, and the need to oxygenate their large quantities of blood, are extremely sensitive to the quality of an atmosphere. |
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| 35 | 820 |
I could smell Kur blood. |
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| 35 | 837 |
"We would all be killed, you fools!" I struck her back against the boxes, blood at her mouth, and she sank to the floor. |
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| 35 | 867 |
Another tore the blood and flesh from his face, half blinded, roaring with fury. |
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| 35 | 1228 |
"I have lost a great deal of blood". |
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| 35 | 1255 |
The dais on which I sat was stiff with dried blood. |
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| 35 | 1288 |
I could smell blood. |
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| 35 | 1321 |
I could see the blood emerging from the large body of the animal. |
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| 36 | 272 |
At the chamber of Zarendargar I pressed open the portal with my foot and lifted the weapon, to fire at the figure which would be recumbent upon the blood-soaked, furred dais. |
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| 36 | 299 |
I looked within, once, at the blood-stained dais, and the steel wall, at the foot of which, mingled, lay the fragments of two glasses. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 146 |
There was a bit of blood at her lip, which began to swell. |
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| 4 | 12 |
"Why is there this bother about an escaped slave," demanded a man, his clothing torn and blood at his ear. |
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| 4 | 42 |
"What of those who robbed me!" cried the fellow with the torn clothing and the blood behind his ear. |
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| 4 | 54 |
"They will be gone now," said the man with the blood behind his ear. |
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| 4 | 103 |
"It is she!" said the fellow in the torn tunic with the blood behind his ear, pointing at the small, dark-haired girl. |
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| 4 | 117 |
"It is she," said the fellow with the blood behind his ear. |
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| 4 | 135 |
"Yes," said the man with blood behind his ear. |
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| 4 | 208 |
The praetor then addressed himself to the fellow who had the dried blood caked behind his left ear. |
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| 4 | 228 |
"I was robbed of a golden tarn," said the fellow with the blood at the side of his head. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 59 |
Does your blood not call you to your destiny, my Master? My blood, racing in my weakened body, opened like a flower to you, yielding, calls me to mine. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 148 |
But, too, they might not understand that the blood source was my body; they might understand, rather, only the point at which blood was entering the water. |
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| 21 | 693 |
"Master," she said, "forgive me! I have hurt Master!" There was blood on my arms, from the gouging of her nails, and blood at my left shoulder, from the cut of her teeth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 57 |
Cuwignaka, a knife run with blood in his hand, blood on his hand and wrist, too, stood in the dust. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 414 |
They were partly ripped by the wind, and were stained with blood, where the blood had run down the pole. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1377 |
The paper on which he had smeared blood was doubtless the attestation paper, the blood being presumably put at the bottom, in the place for it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 595 |
There was a bit of blood upon her, and a smeared stain of blood on the interior of her left thigh. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 17 |
There was doubtless a call of blood to blood. |
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| 18 | 69 |
The act may have spoken to her below the daylight of consciousness, like a whispering in the secret night of her belly, but, too, perhaps there was involved no more than a calling of blood to blood, so to speak. |
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| 47 | 125 |
Cabot saw blood streaming loose in the atmosphere, like a shredding silken ribbon, and Lord Grendel, eyes half blinded with blood, spit away throat and bone. |
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| 53 | 222 |
Then there seemed a frenzy of activity within, an energetic wriggling, and the whole head and a shoulder emerged, ears laid back, all glistening and bloody, and blood began to run down the side of the womb, profusely, and Cabot stepped back, further, and then, suddenly, a small body emerged, and clu... |
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| 55 | 345 |
After emergences she knelt in the blood, bent over, her hands helpless behind her, and lapped at the blood, competing for it with scavengers". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 33 |
Blood may beget blood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 959 |
The blood lust is upon you!" "It is not!" cried Axel, wildly, with an excellent imitation of a fellow on whom might rest the flames of blood lust. |
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